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Full Text of HB0929  97th General Assembly

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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is
5amended by adding Article 124C as follows:
 
6    (725 ILCS 5/Art. 124C heading new)
7
ARTICLE 124C. SMART ENFORCEMENT LAW

 
8    (725 ILCS 5/124C-1 new)
9    Sec. 124C-1. Short title. This Article may be cited as the
10Smart Enforcement Law.
 
11    (725 ILCS 5/124C-5 new)
12    Sec. 124C-5. Preamble and findings.
13    (a) The State of Illinois is committed to upholding our
14criminal laws and in imposing appropriate penalties for those
15convicted of criminal offenses. In the case of noncitizens of
16the United States, the consequences of criminal convictions may
17include removal from the United States by U.S. Immigration and
18Customs Enforcement (ICE).
19    (b) In 2007, in enacting Public Law 110-161, 121 Stat.
201844, 2365, Congress provided initial appropriations to
21"improve and modernize efforts to identify aliens convicted of

 

 

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1a crime, sentenced to imprisonment, and who may be deportable,
2and remove them from the United States once they are judged
3deportable". ICE has used this funding to create the "Secure
4Communities" program, through which ICE receives and reviews
5fingerprints that local police take for criminal suspects upon
6booking.
7    (c) Illinois participates in the "Secure Communities"
8pursuant to a Memorandum of Agreement entered into by ICE and
9the Illinois State Police on November 2, 2009. ICE is
10implementing the program in counties throughout Illinois and
11intends to cover the entire nation by 2013.
12    (d) Contrary to the goal, stated by Congress and affirmed
13by ICE, of identifying and removing noncitizens convicted of
14crimes, "Secure Communities" has largely been identifying
15individuals with no criminal convictions for ICE arrest and
16removal. Through February 2011, 46.5% of individuals arrested
17by ICE under "Secure Communities" had no convictions.
18    (e) "Secure Communities" imposes additional costs upon
19county jails and other local law enforcement by requiring that
20the jails hold individuals who may otherwise be released. The
21costs of these holds are borne by local taxpayers.
22    (f) By subjecting individuals with no criminal convictions
23to removal, "Secure Communities" disrupts families and
24communities, encourages racial and ethnic profiling, burdens
25taxpayers, and poses harm to our State as a whole.
26    (g) Because the "Secure Communities" program is straying so

 

 

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1far from its stated goals, at significant cost to families and
2communities, the State must monitor and review the impact of
3this program to determine whether it is indeed benefiting the
4people of Illinois.
5    (h) ICE itself has been unclear and uncertain as to whether
6counties and local jurisdictions can choose not to participate
7in "Secure Communities", even if they believe that the program
8would harm their communities. The State should accordingly
9enable counties and local jurisdictions to refuse to
10participate should they choose to do so.
 
11    (725 ILCS 5/124C-10 new)
12    Sec. 124C-10. Participation in the U.S. Immigration and
13Customs Enforcement "Secure Communities" Program.
14    (a) This Section pertains to the U.S. Immigration and
15Customs Enforcement (ICE) "Secure Communities" Program, in
16which Illinois participates pursuant to a "Memorandum of
17Agreement Between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
18Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Illinois State
19Police" entered into on November 2, 2009.
20    (b) The Illinois State Police shall identify a means by
21which a local law enforcement agency may request to withhold
22its participation in the "Secure Communities" program, and
23shall facilitate any such request to the appropriate federal
24agencies.
25    (c)(1) Any county participating in the "Secure

 

 

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1Communities" program shall submit to the Illinois State Police,
2in a form and manner to be determined by the Illinois State
3Police, the following information:
4        (A) the number of individuals held by the county's jail
5    during each calendar month pursuant to a detainer issued by
6    ICE requesting that the jail hold an individual until ICE
7    takes that individual into its custody;
8        (B) with respect to those individuals subject to such
9    detainers:
10            (i) the charge or charges for which the individual
11        was arrested;
12            (ii) to the extent known by the county, whether the
13        arrest occurred after a traffic stop, after a Terry
14        stop, pursuant to an arrest warrant, or under other
15        circumstances relating to warrantless arrests;
16            (iii) the charge or charges if any for which the
17        individual was arraigned and prosecuted;
18            (iv) the disposition of the criminal charge or
19        charges described in clause (iii) of this paragraph
20        (1), and the date of the disposition;
21            (v) whether bond was posted for the individual, and
22        if so, the date on which bond was posted;
23            (vi) the length of time (in days) the individual
24        was held in the jail's custody;
25            (vii) whether ICE took the individual into
26        custody, and if so, the date on which ICE took custody;

 

 

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1            (viii) the cost incurred by the county for holding
2        these individuals subject to the ICE detainer beyond
3        the date on which bond was posted or they otherwise
4        became subject to release, and whether the county
5        requested reimbursement for any federal agency to
6        cover expenses arising from the ICE detainers;
7            (ix) the individual's national origin, if
8        voluntarily reported by the individual, provided that
9        nothing in this reporting requirement shall be
10        construed to require that the county determine or
11        inquire into the national origin of any such
12        individuals, or to authorize any law enforcement
13        agencies to compel such individuals to provide this
14        information;
15            (x) to the extent known by the county, whether the
16        detainer arose pursuant to the "Secure Communities"
17        program, the ICE Criminal Alien Program, an "immigrant
18        alien query" requested by the arresting law
19        enforcement agency, or other means.
20    (2) The Illinois State Police shall arrange for the data
21collected pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection (c) to
22be made available to the public.
23    (d) As a condition for its continued participation in the
24"Secure Communities" program, the State of Illinois shall
25modify its Memorandum of Agreement with ICE to provide that, in
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1"aliens convicted of a crime, sentenced to imprisonment, and
2who may be deportable," Public Law 110-161, 121 Stat. 1844,
32365 (2007), no Illinois arrest record information regarding
4any individual may be analyzed by ICE through the "Secure
5Communities" program unless such individual has been convicted
6of a criminal offense.
 
7    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
8becoming law.